ESRL/PSD Seminar Series
Using vertically pointing Doppler radar to study clouds.
Dr. Maximilian Maahn
Institute for Geophysics and Meteorology, University of Cologne
Abstract
More observations of clouds are required to fill gaps in understanding of microphysical properties and processes. Ground based remote sensing observations have potential to fill this gap, but their indirect observations can normally not constrain cloud properties unambiguously. For vertically pointing cloud radars, it is investigated how this can be improved by obtaining additional information from higher moments of the Doppler spectrum. Examples are presented how cloud radar observations can be utilized, e.g., for evaluation of atmospheric models and their used parameterizations, for detection of drizzle onset as well as for validation of ice particle scattering models.
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